. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . htrates? He replied That is whatsome peo])le tell us. I then cited acase where freight rates did not enterinto prices. It was as follows: The other day I went to an or-chard, about two miles from the city,to ])urchase som,c apples, nice sprayedfruit, selling at from to $ basket. A day or two later a carof apples from IN^chigan arrived inthe city, equal in quality to home-grown fruit. They were sold, de-liveied, at per basket. Howdo you figure that this man couldship apples here ivjom Micliigan andundersell the home product afterpayin
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . htrates? He replied That is whatsome peo])le tell us. I then cited acase where freight rates did not enterinto prices. It was as follows: The other day I went to an or-chard, about two miles from the city,to ])urchase som,c apples, nice sprayedfruit, selling at from to $ basket. A day or two later a carof apples from IN^chigan arrived inthe city, equal in quality to home-grown fruit. They were sold, de-liveied, at per basket. Howdo you figure that this man couldship apples here ivjom Micliigan andundersell the home product afterpaying freight rate My question remains unansweredto this date. We should never missan opportunity to defend our freightrates. Let us look to the service rather thanto the reward. Then we see in ourindustrial army, from the most exaltedcaptain to the humblest soldier in the ranks,a purpose worthy to minister to the high-est needs of man and to fulfill the hope ofa fairer day.—Calvin Coolidge 8 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, March, ig24. View Inc., of Ni-w York WOODROW WILSON Twenty-eighth President of the United States Born December 28, 1856; died February 3, 1924 Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, March, 1924 Why He Was a Chief Extract from The Creation of WealthBv Harrington Emerson AN EXPLORER was passing thewinter on the arctic shore ofAlaska in an Eskimo village,the guest of a chief. Between neces-sary sleeps the chief went forth intothe darkness and cold, built a wind-break of ice blocks, cut a holethrough the eight feet of ocean ice,and steadily, hour after hour, fished,thus accumulating great stores offrozen food. Why do you thus laboriously fishfar beyond your own needs? askedthe explorer. Said the savage:When the sun comes back, starvingtribes from the interior will come tome for help. Because I am a chiefI must be prepared to feed them. This man had not inherited eitherwealth or chieftainship. He had hadno opportunities be>ond those of hisfellow tribesm
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